Rift
[rɪft]
Definition
(noun.) a narrow fissure in rock.
(noun.) a gap between cloud masses; 'the sun shone through a rift in the clouds'.
Checker: Melanie--From WordNet
Definition
(-) p. p. of Rive.
(n.) An opening made by riving or splitting; a cleft; a fissure.
(n.) A shallow place in a stream; a ford.
(v. t.) To cleave; to rive; to split; as, to rift an oak or a rock; to rift the clouds.
(v. i.) To burst open; to split.
(v. i.) To belch.
Checked by Delores
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Cleft, fissure, crack, rent, breach, fracture, break, gap, opening, chink, crevice, cranny.
Inputed by Jesse
Definition
n. an opening split in anything: a fissure: a veil: a fording-place.—v.t. to rive: to cleave.—v.i. to split: to burst open.
Typist: Virginia
Examples
- The world was torn in two, and he was plunging like an unlit star through the ineffable rift. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- On the contrary, said Holmes, it is the brightest rift which I can at present see in the clouds. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- You would not call it murder, if you could precipitate me into one of those ice-rifts, and destroy my frame, the work of your own hands. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- The surface is very uneven, rising like the waves of a troubled sea, descending low, and interspersed by rifts that sink deep. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- A dull wrack was drifting slowly across the sky, and a star or two twinkled dimly here and there through the rifts of the clouds. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
Editor: Nolan